hscalendar

This is hscalendar, a time tracking software written in HASKELL and ELM. It consists in a couple of command line tools along a web frontend.

As for HASKELL, the code follows the best practices proposed by the FP complete team, especially:

• how to handle exceptions
• using the ReaderT pattern and RIO library

This project can demonstrate the use of the following libraries:

• QuickCheck
• RIO
• esqueleto
• haskell-to-elm
• hspec
• optparse-applicative
• persistent
• refined
• servant
• yaml

If you do find some of this code useful, please, let me know by sending me an email at jeancharles.quillet@gmail.com

Introduction

hscalendar base time unit is a half-day. It also maintains a list of projects. A half-day can be either worked or not. In the former case:

• It requires to be linked to a project
• The times of arrival/departure should make sense:
  • a time of arrival should not be superior to a time of departure and vice versa
  • this rule is also enforced between the morning and the afternoon.

Architecture

The project is split in different binaries:

• hscalendar-cli: a simple standalone command line tool
• hscalendar-server/hscalendar-client: servant REST server/client
• hscalendar-users: command line tool to edit the user list allowed to connect to the web server

These programs share a common library located in the src directory. The library contains the following sub-directories:

• src/App: Contains the functions related to the applications: top level monad, configuration file, process launching, command line parsing, the servant API etc...
• src/Db: Contains the CRUD functions to edit and query the database
• src/*: Other functions related to external libraries

Frontend

The frontend is written en ELM and its sources are located in the frontend directory. ELM datatypes are generated from the Haskell datatypes using the library haskell-to-elm. The executable in charge of actually writing the ELM sources file is elm-generator.

Below are some screenshots of the frontend.

The month page showing a review of what happens during a full month:

The day page where one can edit individual half-day:

The project page, to add/rename/remove projects:

Deployment and CI

This project is built on each commit on the repository by GitHub actions. A docker image is automatically sent on docker hub when the build and tests succeed.

How to try it ?

The easiest way is to pull the latest docker image:

docker pull jecaro/hscalendar-server:latest

Then start a shell in a new container:

docker run -ti --rm --network=host jecaro/hscalendar-server:latest bash

Initialize the default SQLite database:

./hscalendar-cli migrate

Add a user:

./hscalendar-users add myusername mysecretpassword

Start the server:

./hscalendar-server

That's it ! You can know go to the URL: http://localhost:8081/ and authenticate yourself.

Standalone command line tool

The command line tool is called hscalendar-cli.

Configuration

The tool uses a configuration file located in ~/.config/hscalendar/config.yml. If it doesn't exists, it is created at first launch.

Below is the default configuration file:

_configDefaultHours:
  _defaultHoursForDayAfternoon:
    _defaultHoursLeft: 17:00:00
    _defaultHoursArrived: 13:30:00
  _defaultHoursForDayMorning:
    _defaultHoursLeft: 12:00:00
    _defaultHoursArrived: 08:20:00
_configDefaultOffice: Rennes
_configDbConfig:
  _dbConfigNbConnections: 1
  _dbConfigConnectionString: ~/.config/hscalendar/database.db
  _dbConfigBackend: Sqlite

It contains:

• the default values for departure and arrival time
• the default office
• the default database backend where all data is stored. The default database backend is a Sqlite file.

The database backend can be changed for a PostgreSql database. See below for an example:

_configDbConfig:
  _dbConfigNbConnections: 1
  _dbConfigConnectionString: postgres://mydbuser:mydbpass@localhost:5432/mydb
  _dbConfigBackend: Postgresql

The database configuration can be overriden by these environment variables: BACKEND and DATABASE_URL which uses the same format as the configuration file. It can be useful when running the service on a stateless docker container.

Synopsis

Common options

A half-day is described by a date:

• today
• yesterday
• tomorrow
• dd-mm-yy
• dd-mm: current year is used
• dd: current month and year is used

and a time in the day either:

• -m for morning
• -a for afternoon

Command line

Set a working half-day:

hscalendar-cli diary work DATE -m|-a [commands]
  commands:
    -p project set the project name
    -n note    set note
    -a 00:00   set time of arrival
    -l 00:00   set left time
    -o office  set the office: home|out|poool|rennes

Set a half-day as non-working:

• pl: Paid leave
• fe: Family event
• rtte: French kind of paid leave
• rtts: French kind of paid leave
• ul: Unpaid leave
• ph: Public holiday
• pt: Part-time

hscalendar-cli diary off DATE -m|-a pl|fe|rtte|rtts|ul|ph|pt

Remove a half-day:

hscalendar-cli diary rm DATE -m|-a

Display a half-day:

hscalendar-cli diary display DATE -m|-a

Display a full week. The week definition can be either:

• current: for current week
• ww: the week number of current year
• yyyy-ww: the year and the week number

hscalendar-cli diary week WEEK

Launch an editor to edit a working half-day:

hscalendar-cli diary edit DATE -m|-a

List all the projects:

hscalendar-cli project list

Remove a project:

hscalendar-cli project rm NAME

Add a project:

hscalendar-cli project add NAME

Rename a project:

hscalendar-cli project rename OLDNAME NEWNAME

Client/server mode

hscalendar can also operate in a client/server mode. The server exposes a REST API using servant.

Server

The server uses the same configuration file and environment variables as the command line tool.

hscalendar-server [-v] [-p PORT]

The command line options are:

• -v Toggle the logs in verbose mode
• -p PORT Override the default port number: 8081

Client

The client uses exactly the same options as the standalone tool. Only its first argument is different. It consists in the URL used to contact the server, for example:

• http://myuser:mypassword@localhost:8081 for http
• https://myuser:mypassword@droplet:443 for joining the server over https